Gassy Garbage: How Beijing Can Turn Its Trash Into Energy Apr 14, 2021 2:30 pm | Add a comment | 23 reads How bad is the smog these days, really? Who is keeping tabs on the state of our drinking water? What has the government done about carbon emissions lately? In Beicology we turn our focus toward environmental news in the capital. As trash piles up in Beijing’s suburbs, heaping landfills have earned a place at the forefront of the discussion about ecology in the capital (or as we like to call it, Beicology). Aside from being an eyesore, landfills produce methane – a powerful greenhouse gas –